How do you use the distributive property to factor $3xy-9x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-06-03T18:07:46

See a solution process below:

First, we can factor each term as:

$3xy - 9x =>$

$(3x * y) - (3x * 3)$

We can now factor out a $3x$ from each term:

$3x(y - 3)$

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